Austria’s former vice-chancellor Heinz-Christian Strache goes on trial Tuesday over graft charges linked to the giant “Ibiza-gate” scandal, which is still roiling national politics two years after it broke.
– What happened in Ibiza? –
The scandals can be traced back to a meeting in 2017 on the Spanish resort island of Ibiza between Strache, then leader of the far-right Freedom Party (FPOe), and a woman posing as the niece of a Russian oligarch.
Strache was filmed promising the woman state contracts in exchange for helping his party to campaign for elections on an anti-migration, anti-Islam plank.
Strache also discussed the possibility of the woman buying Austria’s most-read tabloid, Kronen Zeitung, and making its editorial line more pro-FPOe.
Strache faces corruption charges stemming from Ibiza-gate scandal
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